This applet looks great and has some terrific functionality. However, I am having difficulties getting it to display weather for my location.
I was happy to see that I could install the applet directly on my Touch through the Touch menu. However, after installing it, I don't seem to be able to adjust the settings for my location. (The weather in Berlin is currently a lot nicer than it is where I live, and that is nice to know, but not what I want to know.) I have hunted all over the place for a place on the Touch interface to change the location for the weather settings, but I can't seem to find a menu anywhere. I thought that perhaps I could adjust the location settings on the Squeezebox server. However,the Weather applet does not show up on the Squeezebox Server, whether I have specified to show all 3rd party plug ins or not or have specified the URL for the bluegaspde repository (I understand that this should not be necessary). OK, I thought, the firmware is new so there may be some changes, and things might not work as advertised. Consequently, I thought I might try to change the settings manually in some file on the Touch itself. So, I looked at the code in usr/share/jive/applets/weather (first time I have ever looked at a lua file), and it looks like a weather.location object is being called from WeatherMeta.lua. So, I modified the text string, "Berlin,Germany" in the WeatherMeta.lua file to my own location. However, for some reason that I can't figure out right now, this has no effect. I am still getting conditions from Berlin. I have even tested a variety of strings that should work for my location by passing them as a query string to http://api.wunderground.com/auto/wui/geo/GeoLookupXML/index.xml?query=[some value]. I am, admittedly, a noob, so I really don't have a clear grasp yet on how all the pieces work for applications, plugins, and the Touch in general. Perhaps someone can direct me to an easy fix, confirm that I am not alone in having this difficulty, or at least confirm that my troubleshooting strategy is not correct (I am not looking at the right files, for example). I running firmware version 7.5.0-r8673 on the touch; the software on the Squeezebox server is 7.5.0-r30464. Thanks! Martin -- dmg ------------------------------------------------------------------------ dmg's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=37076 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=73827 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
